A special nanochip containing the founding
declarations of U.S. and Israel is set in ancient stone to be handed to
Obama • "Unique gift symbolizes the main messages of the visit — the
strong and deep bilateral ties," Prime Minister's Office says.
The nanochip U.S. President
Barack Obama will get from the prime minister, with the Jerusalem stone
underneath.
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Photo credit: Yoav Bachar & Shlomo Shoham, Technion.  |
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will give
U.S. President Barack Obama a special gold-coated silicon nanochip
containing the U.S.'s Declaration of Independence written alongside
Israel's founding document.
The chip was manufactured by scientists from
the Technion's Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute. It has a surface
area of just 0.04 square millimeters (0.00006 square inches) and a
width of 0.00002 mm (or 20 nanometers). It was embedded in an ancient
piece of Jerusalem stone that had been used as a seal during the Second
Temple period.
The documents were written into the chip using
a focused beam of high-energy gallium ions. Various points on the
surface of the chip were bombarded by these accelerated ions, creating
microscopic inscriptions.
"The unique gift symbolizes the main messages of the visit — the
strong and deep bilateral ties, a bond dating thousands of years between
the people of Israel and the Land of Israel, and the technological
advancement of Israel's research and development centers," the Prime
Minister's Office said in a statement Sunday.
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